I love going out to the ocean for a swim. It looks and feels so immense, almost like the sky which its blue waters reflect so well. Sometimes, I think I can hear it calling me like a mother to her child. This is a feeling I can get while standing on the beach and watching the endless waves curling toward the shore.

As I step carefully over the stones and seaweed into the water, I begin to feel as being a part of the sea. I think of how life started there. Swimming makes me feel so light as though I could float and drift away into the ocean's windy vastness. I will lie on my back and stare up into the blue emptiness of the sky wondering about the whole nature of life. I think it is good for people to live outside of themselves. I will stand shoulder deep and just watch the sea stir so restlessly, knowing that is the way it has always been. There is a feeling of being within something that has no beginning or end. The ocean beautifully enlarges my soul.

During the fall or winter swims as I wade back to the rocky shore my legs will grow numb from the cold water. Grabbing my towel they quickly warm with some rubbing. I always feel greatly refreshed from an ocean swim.

Afterwards, I dread going back to city life, which is so full of conflict and blindness. It is as though the people have become slaves to the road. They can only see what is in their lane. There is an evil in the world, but most people just need more support, more empathy. Schools need to do a better job of developing leaders who care about the real genuine grassroots level of our communities. An intellect without soul is meaningless and it will become lost in the worldly wilderness. Whole nations collapse from a lack of humanity.

I want to be a part of something bigger than myself and the sea gives that to me. I feel like I can float away in its presence and look down on my small earthly lot in life. Perhaps, I should give away my possessions and live in a nice tent on the beach. I feel that the sea could teach me how to move away from the darkness in my life and out into the holy light. This would be such a blessing. All I need to do would be to float away on the sleepy sound of waves curling on a sandy beach, my soul slowly drifting off into the eternal, maternal living light itself.